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BUT if there is a serious issue in the houses built by following the project you had signed, well, you will go to jail (or pay the fine). I still have to see a software engineer held PERSONALLY accountable, in front of the law, for a PII leak, for example.


I am ignorant about this industry. But is it really the architect who is held liable? Not the civil engineer who signs off on the analysis?


Try working in safety critical software. There liability is the norm.


Yes, but basically every architect work is safety critical. If a construction collapses on itself, it will kill you.


Architects design, a structural engineer makes sure it stands up


I think it depends on the type of work (and also legislation). For example I had architects calculating which kind/size of iron girder/joist (IDK the exact English word for it) put to replace a supporting wall. If they calculate that badly, the roof comes down at some point, and I die.




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